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FreshservicePS

About

From our continued success as a Platinum-level partner, Flycast Partners is considered Freshworks’ preferred partner for complex Freshservice ITSM implementations/integrations as well as a leading source of Freshservice knowledge and services. As part of our commitment to delivering high-quality services, our team of ITIL- and Freshworks-certified ITSM Consultants has created FreshservicePS, a comprehensive Freshservice PowerShell API Library, for diverse operational needs.

Built by the team who garnered Freshworks Global ITSM Strategic Partner of the Year, Flycast Partners believes in contributing to the Freshworks community. Our PowerShell Modules provide organizations with a versatile solution to administer, build, and streamline their Freshservice environment. By offering our expertise and experience to fellow users, we hope to foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge-sharing that empowers this community to succeed and thrive!

With our FreshservicePS PowerShell Modules, Freshservice Admins have the ability to:

Make the Freshservice API simple to use with a command-line interface
Manage Freshservice Ticket, Problems, Changes, Releases, Requesters, and more using simple commands
Provide additional reporting and filtering capabilities
Automate re-occurring tasks in Freshservice tenants
Move data between Freshservice tenants
Support DevOps and build, test, and deploy solutions in CI/CD operations

The FreshservicePS module aligns closely with the Freshservice API documentation, so be sure to reference notes, throttling and other import aspects of the Freshservice API.

Status - Work in progress

This project is a work in progress and may change significantly before reaching stability based on feedback from the community. Please do not base critical processes on this project until it has been further refined. Links to other content may not be working just yet as we are building content to support this project.

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Instructions

Installation

Install FreshservicePS from the PowerShell Gallery! Install-Module requires PowerShellGet.

# One time only install:
Install-Module -Name FreshservicePS -Scope CurrentUser

# Check for updates occasionally:
Update-Module -Name FreshservicePS

Usage

Create a connection profile for FreshservicePS.

# To create a configuration to Freshservice:

# Import the module
Import-Module -Name FreshservicePS

# Create a configuration to connect to the Production instance (i.e. https://acme-corp.freshservice.com)
# API and set as the Default connection (automatically connect when importing the module):

New-FreshServiceConnection -Name acme_prod -ApiKey 'gsfdgjkhdfs73jdsbd' -Tenant 'acme-corp' -Environment Production -Default $true

# Create a configuration to connect to the Sandbox (i.e. https://its-fine-fs-sandbox.freshservice.com) 
# API to switch connections using Connect-Freshservice:

New-FreshServiceConnection -Name acme_sbx -ApiKey 'gsfdgjkhdfs73jdsbd' -Tenant 'acme-corp' -Environment Sandbox -Default $false

Connect to an environment and execute commands:

# When importing the module, it will automatically connect to the default instance 
# (defined with the -Default switch with 'acme_prod'):
Import-Module FreshservicePS

# To switch to another connection, use the Connect-Freshservice cmdlet:
Connect-Freshservice -Name acme_sbx

You can find the full documentation here and in the console.

#Review the help at any time!
Get-Help about_FreshservicePS
Get-Command -Module FreshservicePS
Get-Help Get-FreshServiceTicket -Full # or any other command

Rate Limit (Throttling)

Highly recommend reviewing the rate limit documentation for Freshservice. The rate limit applies at the account level (not per API Key\account), so all accounts leveraging the API consume calls. This module performs pagination automatically and pipeline operations that can make many API calls very quickly, so throttling at the module level is default behavior to reduce the probability of a 429 Retry-After which makes the API inaccessible for the entire account for time period (usually 30-40 seconds). If bulk operations are being performed and no throttling should occur, use the NoThrottling switch:

Connect-Freshservice -Name my_instance -NoThrottling

For more information on how to use FreshservicePS, tips, blogs and more, check out (COMING SOON!!).

Useful links

Disclaimer

Hopefully this is obvious, but:

This is an open source project (under the MIT license), and all contributors are volunteers. All commands are executed at your own risk. Please ensure have good backups before you start, because you can delete a lot of stuff if you're not careful.

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